The topic of J.S. Giguere’s rip job on his team last week came up Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada’s “Hotstove” segment and, well, Jiggy’s actions came in for some heavy criticism from a couple of the panelists.

Glenn Healy and P.J. Stock both raked Jiggy over the coals for the comments. Elliotte Friedman reported as well that Jiggy now regrets the “Vegas trip” comment.
Here is video of the segment. The stuff about Jiggy starts at the 5:18 mark:

I respect all the guys on the panel a lot. I do disagree some, though, that Jiggy and the team would have been best served by just keeping everything “in-house”, as Stock put it. My own view is: the Avs have tried a lot of in-house stuff to get out of their losing ways, and they didn’t work. Look at the results since Jiggy decided to bring things more into the public: 2-0-1.

Sometimes a little public shaming is what can really wake a team up, and I think this was one of those cases. I think if everybody had just tried to keep everything in-house again, the results wouldn’t have been there. I could be wrong, but that’s my take.